Introduction

This report about what I learned in period 1 of CAD. I will talk about what I learnt about in “Kunst uit het Vuistje”, The process with which I created my stop motion and how the movie “J’ai perdu mon Corpse” made me feel.

 

Kunst uit het Vuistje

I liked the “Kunst uit het Vuistje” exercises, especially the ones about camera work. My father and uncle are both photographers and my uncle and his wife even have a wedding photography busines. The biggest effect that “Kunst uit het Vuistje” had on me is that I am looking at movies differently. Every time I watch a movie now, I start analysing it and thinking about how they filmed certain things. This is a double-edged sword because it’s interesting to think about, but it takes away from the emersion. It is annoying because I get distracted and think about how they made the movie and less about the story. So overall it was fun and interesting, but I developed some annoying habits.

Stop Motion

Making the stop motion was very hard for me. I’m a very unartistic person so I thought I could make a stop motion using Knex. Making a stop motion out of Knex was a horrible idea because they were constantly falling over, and I spent way too much time just messing around. At the beginning of the quarantine I was so bored that I started sorting all my Knex. All this sorting is now destroyed because I needed the pieces I used for sorting. My time management was horrible. I put it of way to long and then I didn’t have time to fix some problems I had. One of the problems was the lighting. I started filming at midday and as the sun went down the lighting and shadows changed. I had a lot of light pointed at it but I should have closed my window to stop the sun interfering. I wasn’t happy with the result but I’m never happy with things I make even when they are ok.

J’ai perdu mon Corpse

It was very weird to watch and I didn’t really enjoy it. It felt very surreal but somehow also felt too real. This might not make sense but the parts with the hand felt very weird and surreal with the astronaut and the memories. The part with the main character felt to real for me because of the smoke and the garbage. I don’t know how to describe it but I watch movies to activate my mind and this movie had a very different goal. I can understand that people might like it but I didn’t. From a technical standpoint I think the movie was great. The animation was great, and I think it conveyed the story brilliantly. The story was also well written, and it was executed very well.

Reflection

The writing was hard because I have never written about my opinion before. It was also hard because there was so much freedom and I don’t work well with a lot of freedom. These projects helped me work on that. It was very hard, but I learned a lot.